The World is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner -- 2008 Bulgarian biography, co-produced with Slovenia, Germany and Hungary
Its original Bulgarian title literally translates to the world is big and salvation prowls on all sides.
(lurk-no movement; prowl-move around.)
The film adapted from the eponymous autobiographic novel written by Bulgarian-German Llija Trojanow who is a writer, translator and publisher.
The story was set in 1980s. The country's current political structure is the democratic constitution adopted since 1991.
amnesia, complete or partial loss of memory caused by brain injury, shock, etc.
backgammon, one of the oldest board games in the world. （西洋双陆棋，南欧一些国家的国棋了，相当于中国麻将的普及度）
The family flee to Germany from Bulgaria
保加利亚， 联合斯洛文尼亚，德国和匈牙利出品
原影片名，翻译到英文时，启用英文的常用说法 lurk around the corner
剧本由原同名小说改编，自传体的作者不仅写作，同时还从事翻译和出版业
The Royal Jester aka King and Clown -- 2005 Korean historical drama
Gong-gil is the feminine actor in the movie, a historical figure mentioned in the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty as the King's favorite clown.
The English title is more fit than the original title.
据韩国历史年鉴中的一句话而创作
英语电影名更符合内容
Under the Hawthorn Tree -- 2010 Chinese Romance 山楂树之恋
The story was set in 1970s during the Cultural Revolution in China.
The script for the screen was adapted from the popular novel Hawthorn Tree Forever by Aimi. She's currently living in the USA? Seems that Chinese readers are more interested in the writer than the story.
An arguement between the writer and the reader has been taking place over the internet for years. Good lord, sling me a real surprise. Know nothing about it untill the night watching the movie.
Though no one knows who the writer really is, the purest love and the historical event are the attactions to the audience worldwide, as well as the dipiction of a rural life in a villege in China to the west in particaler, I believe; it once got me weeping.
Assumedly, under any circumstances, the westerner would be hard to figure out why the girl knows nothing about life. They wouldn't believe why she is so immuture and backward.
In general, I enjoyed the English subtitle, which is much better than the one i saw another day. The person who made it must have had, or have been living in an English speaking coutry for years.
How I Ended this Summer -- 2010 Russian psychological thriller
Settings - a polar station on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean
Characters - a middle-aged man as a seasoned meteorologist who is dedicated, humorless and gruff & a young man as a recent college graduate who is nervous and insecure.
The tension between the two men is right from the start, leading to a tragety end. The collapsed Soviet Union's shadow is omnipresent and unavoidable seen. What on earth stop you both talking to each other? I've surrounded by birds too long, possibly.
俄心理片
北极洋荒无人烟之岛一气象站点
人物有二：中年气象学家，工作严谨，不幽默，口气生硬； 新毕业生，紧张和不安
影片初始，二人关系即不畅，悲剧收场。 苏联的影子潜身处处。 唉，究竟什么只有二人却不好好说话呢。我大概生活在这里时间太长了。。。
Paper Soldier -- 2008 Russian drama
Set in 1961, the Soviet medical officer ends up with another death.
Sacrificing individul lives for a nation/country is something that puzzles the west? making them panic? hatred
a scenario, when facing a death
The west, counseling follows
The East, keep working prior to all
I don't have an answer for it.
故事发生在1961 年， 又一个导致人亡的片子， 前苏联军医丧身在阿萨克斯坦
个体生命一定要服从国家和民族，也许就是这个原因使西方人不解，恐慌以及憎恨？
场景假设，死亡发生时
西方， 心理帮助跟随
东方， 工作第一
我没有答案
A well done adaptation of William Shakespeare's play as the same name.
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, the couple of worldwide renown shine in their roles.
Kate is the beautiful, fiery, feisty, mean-spirited, outspoken, violent-tempered, unloved eldest daughter of a wealthy man. People call her 'Katherine the Shrew.'
Bianca, the young sister of Kate appears beautiful, gentle, docile, kind, sweet
Petruchio, loud, boisterous, dirty, obnoxious, wealthy-bride hunter
In the final fifteen minutes when Kate delivers the famous 'Lord and Master' speech she is triumphant as she submits to her man. At the same time we know that she is the one who holds all the cards and in the off stage end will rule the roost from now on.
With my husband's thumb up and my laughter, questions are still rised: what is the play's attitude toward the man's behavior? I guess I have to read in Shakespeare's language to find out.
Or it's possibly a light-hearted farce that is not meant to be taken seriously? William had to please the audience. Isn't it?
1967年出品，莎士比亚同名喜剧改编
伊丽莎白 泰勒 和其生活中的丈夫一同出演
Commentary Marriage in Shakespeare's time
During the age when Shakespeare was writing, marriage was generally viewed more as a business relationship than a love match. Particularly among wealthy families, marriages were expected to increase the wealth and properties of the families involved, not satisfy the emotional needs of the prospective bride and groom.
Elizabethan women had little choice in husbands. Marriages were arranged by families to bring prestige or wealth to the families involved. This was especially true of the upper levels of society - princes and princesses married to form political alliances; the children of nobility married to increase fortune; and sones and daughters of landowners married to secure funds and increase land holdings. Women were expected to have a 'dowry' - money, goods, and property that the bride would bring with her to the marriage. This was sometimes referred to as the marriage portion. THE dowry would benefit the male. All the wife's possessions and money, as well as the wife herself, essentially became the property of her husband.
Children of lower class, poor families, were more likely to marry neighbors with whom they had developed friendship and, possibly, romantic feelings.
Let's back to the play. In the face of a society that views marriage as a business arrangement, however, Shakspeare allows some of his characters to follow their hearts. Lucentio marries Bianca for love, not for money.
The other two are different stories. Petruchio seeks a wife to improve his financial situation. He is upfront about what he wants out of marriage. Despite all the warnings he hears about Katherine; he gets assurance from her father that she will bring a large dowry to the marriage, he pursues her because she is wealthy.
'Then tell me, if i get your daughter's love, what dowry shall I have with her to wife?' (Act2. Scene1. Lines126-127)
Baptista seeks to use his younger daughter to increase his own wealth. He could give his daughter to Lucentio as a prize as long as his father 'make her the assurance' - guarantee the income.
All of this reminds me of Anne, the wife of William Shakespeare who married his senior at very young age and rarely mentioned of her along his affairs with other women.
What a joy we could get out of it. For modern audience, we could look at the group of people as clowns, laughing about while it goes then forget all afterwords; or we could ask ourselves hard and carefully for questions, we would make the most of it! A joy!
从莎士比亚时期的婚姻常态回到本部剧上。虽说婚姻是政治经济联合，莎士比亚角色中依然有追求爱情的。 Lucentio 因为真爱而婚，不是因为纸票。本剧中另两个人物是不同的， Petruchio 以纯粹的寻求一个富有的嫁妆女开始，他清楚地知道他对婚姻的需求。 尽管听到无数不利于Kate 的传说，而且在追求她之前，他从女人父亲那里确定丰盛嫁妆，他的求婚只因她富有。
另一个， Baptista 这位父亲是通过小女儿之婚嫁确保巩固财产增值。
从无知到有知的快乐！对现代观众来说，我们可以在看此剧时，似乎是看一群幽默表演，随剧情进展而乐；或者仔细认真地想一想问一问，以获得最大收获。真的很快乐！
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Morphine - Russian Drama 2009
a tragedy of the young doctor working in a rural area / never touch drugs!
Out of the Blue -- 2006 New Zealand
Out of the blue you never know what will happen
The screenplay was adapted from the 1935 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Norman Lindsay.
I've found that the oldies (films, people) have immense charm; this movie is one of these.
The photography and superb scenery of the Great Barrier Reef in this film also make it unforgettable.
The young girl who lives with the abusive and often drunk granny is trying to save up enough to leave the island. Her dream is to be a hairdresser in Brisbane.
The man is a successful painter tired of the leeches and pressures of the city, so he moves into a beach house to just escape all responsibilities.
As a Chinese stayed in mainland of China for her almost entire life, I've never seriously thought about the Troubles in Northern Ireland and the IRA, and I would not believe for one moment that bombing and killing in the 1990's was a part of their everyday life, until seeing this film. What a fool I am!
THe movie isn't about politics, it's not about freedom either. It's not about Catholics and protestants, nor right or wrong.
It is a gripping, intelligent psychological thriller, starting off with a flash-back so as to explain the protagonist's motivation to become a terrorist later on. The rest of the film is told in chronological order, with the suspense rising gradually, until the unexpected and dramatic climax.
'We'd better keep going, ' says the brother to the sister.
'When are you going to stop?' I would like to say. Sad, but true facts, isn't it!
The film is also excellent in recreating the atmosphere of the catholic working class neighborhoods in Belfast; you could see the rundown streets and interiors.
More information about The Troubles on http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/troubles
The centre idea of this book could be seen as to answer the question of who owns history; is it the history of powerful people such as monarchs, politicians and generals? For Tolstoy, history is 'an infinite chain of small, insignificant moments in which all individuals, mighty or humble, were involved'.
What's in history? Love, sex, maturity and marriage, https://theconversation.com/war-and-peace-a-users-guide-52845
The city of Rome/753BC/Romulus named the city after himself - 509BC/45BC Roman Republic/(218 BC - Hannibal invaded Rome)Spartacus/Julius Caesar - 27bc Roman Empire/Caesar Augustus/Nero/Constantine/Theodosius - Byzantine - Ottoman
The Story of Europe with Australia-born Christopher Clark on SBS ONE tonight
The Story of Europe, hosted by Dr. Christopher Clark, anAustralia-born Cambridge historian
1. Origins & Identity
2. Beliefs & Ideas
3. Ambitions & Conquests
4. Achievements & Rewards
5. Commonalities & Division
6. State of Play
1,
· How did it all begin? Who were the firstEuropeans and where were they from? During an ice age, the first people, Homosapiens (wise m, leave Africa to conquer the rest of the world. They travelled viathe Middle East, the Levant and Romania when Europe slowly grew warm that the iceage came to an end. Neanderthals were died out the continent was taken over by ‘wisehuman’ (Homo sapiens) 30 000 years ago.
· Living in caves – Stone Age peoples (southFrance & North Spain) – Homo sapiens became human beings; humanscommunication through art, landscapes, images, objects
· The naming origin of Europe: according to amyth, Zeus, father of the Gods, fell in love with Europa, daughter of thePhoenician king of Sidon (Lebanon) . So Zeus in the shape of a bull went to seeEuropa who fell in love the bull and was carried to Crete (olive production).They married and the continent’s beared her name since then.
· What’s made Greece so special? City-states era,Athens stood out (brilliant thinkers invested earthly concerns) as it ruled bypeople, the first time in human history (400BC) – democracy was born, thenfailed to hold out against a military dictatorship.
· Alphabet, political thoughts and systems, marathon (thefirst man Philippides)
· The first time united as a shared fate to fightthe expansion of Persian Empire.
· How did the Greek culture become the Europeanculture? Macedonian king Alexander, known as Alexander the Great conquered allthe Greek city-states (Sparta excluded), a global empire. The Greeks met theCelts (early European tribe groups; Romans called them the Gauls) and introducedthe Greek culture to them. – Julius Caesar warred Vercingetorix (seen as anational hero today in France) for 6 years expanded Roman empire to the farwest. – Augustus built the forum mastered the marketing of power. Romans builtcolonies everywhere (Roman law, citizenship) = Pax Romana = proto-European. Thisera was ended by the mass Germanic migration. Western Roman empire -> Italy
2,
· Hagia Sophia. Constantine Christianised Romanempire. Christianity became influential then the official religion half acentury later.
· The reasons for the success of Christianity: a) thealliance of the Church with the powerful Roman imperial state b) the churchopened to anyone to join c) in deliverance and salvation in the hereafter.
· Early Irish Christianity: 4thC, a monk namedPatrick, the son of a Roman officer from Britannia, apostle of Ireland --àMonasteries and churches were the focal points of European civilisation in theMiddle Ages (church spires, a defining feature of Europe) . Charlemagne(Frankish Empire), the father of Europe.
· Muslims conquered Spain. Islamic renaissancebegan: cooperation between the Arabic, Hebraic cultures; Christians, Muslimsand Jews worked together. Crusades. Orthodox Christendom (Moscow) . Christianityis a divisive force (not a defining bund). Martin Luther reform.
· Treaty of Westphalia: gained peace throughnegotiation, also a start of the separation between religions and politics.
MICHELLE07 发表于 1-12-2018 22:26
Thanks! watched one part of tonight's. Tomorrow it starts at 7:30 pm? Then The Vikings Uncovered ...
Dear, dear, we're on the same page . I, too, saw Civilisations till its end, and yes, the second episode will be on at 7:30pm tomorrow.
Having said that, you probably missed out The Story of Europe which came next Civilisations. I found it much more enjoyable than Civilisations. Perhaps it's because i'm not that into art; whereas The Story of Europe packs in everything I've been watching/reading from the ancient Greece and Rome to the understanding of EU at the present day.
Ghost Fleet: The Epic Voyage of Zheng He directed by Jonathan Finnigan, fl. 2004; produced by Paula Mason, fl. 2005 (Brighton, England: Espresso TV), 1 hour 33 mins
all change in the universe can be explained by the workings of Yin and Yang, as they either produce one another or overcome one another
Africa, the Swahili coast, legend among local people speaks of a strange event many years ago, of a fleet in an unimaginable size (the great treasure fleet from China)
600 years later, National Geographic photographer Mike Yamashita sets off on his own epic journey. He will search for traces of the fleet’s sudden voyages as he follows the trail of its visionary commander, a towering eunuch Admiral, his name Zheng He.
in Indonesia, he is best remembered for his diplomacy. Today, in the city of Semarang in Central Java, Zheng He is honored as a god. He even has his own temple.E very year, thousands of devotees from across the region come here to pray for his blessings. For centuries, he was virtually unknown in China but here in Indonesia his deeds have never been forgotten.
Legend has it that the Ming emperor gifted a princess to Malacca’s (on the west coast of Malaysia) local sultan and 500 Chinese maidens who intermarried with local men.
in Sri Lanka, keen to establish peace, Zheng He presents a gift to the local Buddhist chief, a tablet written in three languages, Chinese, Tamil and Persian.The Chinese were extremely respectful of all the religions that they encountered on their voyages. As exemplified by the wonderful triptych
in Ceylon to all of the gods of the islands, to Buddha, to Allah and to the Hindu gods and very carefully articulated in the tabletis eq ual gifts for all.
in India, Zheng He found the kind of religious harmony he tried to forge in Sri Lanka. This stability along with the flourishing pepper trade made India China’s biggest trading partner for the time.
Aden (Yemen was called in those days) Zheng He as a Muslim must have been dying to get to Mecca. His father made the pilgrimage before he was born and his family were Muslims who came from Central Asia.
As Zhu Di’s body is laid to rest, so with it is his vision for China as a global superpower. Within a year, Confucian influence begins to dominate. The new emperor issues his first edict. The treasure fleet's voyages are to stop.Arguably the worst foreign policy blunder that any country has ever made was China’s decision in the 1400s to abandon Zheng He’s explorations and instead to close the country, to turn inward. And the result was that China’s trade vanished, its economy began to diminish and it found itself on a downward escalator which it found itself impossible to get off of.
in Lamu, the biggest Arab dhow left in the Indian Ocean.Legend has it a shipwreck left a number of Zheng He’s sailors on an island off Africa’s Swahili coast. After marrying local women, they created a community of their own known today as the Washanga part of the Famao clan. Perhaps Zheng He’s crew settled on this coast more than 80 years before Vasco Da ama but can we find evidence that the legend is real?
he treasure fleet may have disappeared but Zheng He’s legacy lives on in communities all over the world linking diverse cultures and religions. In Indonesia, Buddhists worship him as a god while these young Muslims learn to read from a Quran in a mosque dedicated to his name His preaching of religious tolerance is still a lesson for us today.
China was incredibly more advanced scientifically, culturally and economically it amounted for by far the largest share of the world economy, maybe the best measure of China’s sophistication was that it was not until World War 1 that Europe and the West were finally able to put together a fleet as sophisticated as China had in the early 15th century.
Chinese Treasure Fleet Adventures of Zheng He (the second half is trying to find out if ZhengHe'd ever arrived in America)
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, Episode 1, Nero
directed by Nick Murphy, fl. 1999-2016; produced by Mark Hedgecoe, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, Episode 1 (United Kingdom: British Broadcasting Corporation, 2006), 52 mins
Thanks for sharing all this. MICHELLE07 pointed your post to me.
The documentary Civilisations i have watched a few episodes before and it was recommended by a friend. And i found it fascinating. I would like to watch The story of Europe after saw your comments about it. The followings are the online watching URLs for anyone interested. Cheers.
'Civilisations', 我目前是觉得 这种从art works 解读文明发展史，不太让我产生共鸣或者不太说服我；以后可能再回过头来重新看。
The Story of Europe , 对我来说来得很是时候，有了一定的积累，产生了一些疑问，正好这部片子把‘碎片’ （借用MICHELLE07 @MICHELLE07 的语言 ）defragment and optimise （中世纪那段我需要以后补课）
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The Story of Europe with Australia-born Christopher Clark on SBS ONE tonight
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